Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.

No more like together than is chalke to coles.

A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.

Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.

It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.